Packer fan in the house

I can’t say that there is any way to shut down Green Bay’s Wide Receivers. Looking back at the beginning of this year, Rodgers struggled to get the ball to them with the pocket collapsing around him. Green Bay’s biggest flaws are poor Special Teams play and lack of discipline. If I were Pittsburgh, I would disguise heavy blitz packages often just to confuse our shaky Offensive Line. Our OL has performed better in recent weeks, but don’t be deceived because we adjusted the majority of our play calls to short passing routes to get the ball out of Rodgers hands more frequently. If you fans make some noice and force Green Bay to go offsides or even get holding penalties on your blitz packages, we will struggle. Green Bay’s offense has a habit of shooting themselves in the foot with penalties. I will say this, Green Bay quite often gets into 3rd and short situations and they convert more than any other team in those situations. However, on the flip side, they get themselves into a lot of 3rd and 15 situations resulting in a stalled drive.

As for our Special Teams, there is nothing special about this group. Kicker Mason Crosby is kicking 1 for 5 from 50+, and it isn’t any more impressive from 40+. He has struggled mightily. It’s not that he doesn’t have the leg, because he is capable of kicking it from 60 yards. He has had issues getting the ball between the posts. Our punter Kapinos struggles to pin opponents inside the 20. Last but not least, our coverage units on punts and kickoffs are the worst in the NFL. We lost to Minnesota the second time and to Tampa Bay stricly because of our Special Teams struggles. When MN played us @ Lambeau, their average starting position was at the 46 yard line. That’s how bad our Special Teams unit is.

As far as our defense, they are good. However, they have a habit of giving up more TD’s than FG’s. Since Al Harris went on IR, we lack depth at our CB position. Charles Woodson is shutdown, don’t throw it to him (why am i saying that?), Tramon Williams is our upcoming starter, he is reliable and is good, but struggled against Baltimore. After Tramon, we don’t have anybody. That is our defense’s biggest weakness.

I think offensively our biggest weakness is our o-line. As you have probably heard at some point this season, Rodgers has been sacked a lot. They’ve been a little better since the return of our starting RT from last year, Mark Tauscher, but I still think the o-line is a tiny bit above average at best. They can actually be surprisingly good at run blocking at times but I don’t expect Grant to do anything on the ground against you guys.

Honestly, I’m not sure what our weakness would be defensively. If I had to say something I guess it would be our pass defense, and particulary our redzone pass defense. A lot of our struggles in our secondary seem to be more a result of our front seven not generating pressure, as opposed to just poor coverage. Woodson usually absolutely shuts down whoever he covers, and Tramon Williams has struggled with some PI calls (as some of you may have seen on MNF in our game against the Ravens), but overall he has been pretty good and realistically probably better then Harris had been for us until he tore his ACL.

Without a doubt though our biggest weakness is our special teams. Our punter is horrid, our kicker has struggled with FG’s pretty much all year, and our kickoff coverage is despicable to the point that some of us wonder whether or not we even practice special teams during the week. The STs unit is usually good for one big kickoff return, and unfortunately it usually comes at the worst possible time it could.

Finley is a beast. He has WR type speed, with a TE type body. I personally think he’s a lot like Vernon Davis or Antonio Gates. I don’t think he’s at the level of Gates but from what he’s showed us this year it looks like he could eventually get there. He was out with an injury for a few games this year but since he has come back he’s been very involved in our offensive gameplans, and has been really successful these past 2 games.

Who do you guys think will cover him? I would assume Polamalu would be on him if he played but from what I’ve heard it sounds like he isn’t going to play. Correct?

As I indicated in my previous comment, you have rattle up our Offensive Line. Greg Jennings has struggled this year, but he still is good. Driver is our go to guy. Finley is our big target. James Jones is a very good backup WR and he’s reliable. Jordy Nelson is a white man’s version of Hines Ward. lol.

So, Pittsburgh won’t be able to cover them too long. I can assure you of that. Your best option is to rattle up our OL and Rodgers. Force our OL to commit penalties, and you will win. Our OL is the NFL’s leader in penalties. We love to commit 10+ penalties a game. If you can get us into 3rd and 15 situations frequently, you will win. Of course that’s obvious, but it is an ongoing issue in Green Bay.

along with Kemo

How many in a row have we dropped. How many of those were shit ass teams? I’m not buying into the any given Sunday to placate the fans either! That’s BS!! Green Bay has a W penciled in on their schedule, and right they should. Sorry. We are just that bad this year! It’s certainly a painful thing to watch.

Lets face it, you guys are the defending Super Bowl champs and we’re playing in your house. Although we are hot, we can lose at any given Sunday. You guys love to spread the field on offense, and we don’t know if we can keep up considering our lack of depth at the CB position.

come after Rodgers has the ball for 4 or 5 seconds. Their O-line is mediocre not bad.

Your defense just seems so stout and despite your secondary woes, your pass rush scares the hell out of me.

And offensively, Big Ben and Ward and Holmes scares me. I might take some flak for saying this, but until watching the Steelers a bit more last year and this year, I never thought Holmes and Ward were all that great. But my mind has definitely changed since.

Ward is just that tough guy, who always seems to find a way to get it done, and Holmes just seems so explosive. Mike Wallace also scares me a bit as it seems like all the games I have watched this year, Wallace has had a long catch in pretty much every one.

bet on an empty stadium in the 4th!

How’s the Packers kick return game? I don’t know if you’ve heard, Jabooty, but the Steelers kick coverage has been a little suspect this season…more returns than Walmart on December 26.

Our Special Teams coverage is the worst in the NFL, and I can say that without any doubt in my mind. There is absolutely NOTHING bright about our Special Teams. Logan should bring one to the house and should do a good job in establishing good field position for your offense.

Our best run blocking WR is Jordy Nelson. To a lot of us Packer fans, we like to refer to him as the white man’s version of Hines Ward. LOL. We have tremendous respect for Ward, well, some of us do I suppose. At least I do. Driver is alright at blocking, but his specialty is fighting for the extra yardage after the catch. He’s our go to guy. He’s also very difficult to bring down.

last year he wears a puffy jacket and we win the Super Bowl this year no puffy jacket 5 game losing streak

I have a bad feeling about this game and wouldn’t be surprised, but I hope we can get through this game.